April 3, 2014

Kenny Barron Quintet (Tuesday through April 13) Kenny Barron is the leading practitioner of an elegant, economical and sure-footed piano style that thrives in any mainstream setting. For this engagement, he has his trustworthy rhythm team — the bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and the drummer Johnathan Blake — and a responsive front line featuring the tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens and the trumpeter Mike Rodriguez. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, 212-255-4037, villagevanguard.com; $25 and $30 cover, with a one-drink minimum. (Nate Chinen)

Alan Broadbent Trio (Sunday) The pianist Alan Broadbent favors a romantic and even courtly form of harmonic sophistication, which has helped make him an essential partner to figures like Charlie Haden and Diana Krall. For this rather rare New York appearance, he leads a trio with the bassist Putter Smith and the drummer Billy Mintz. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street, 212-582-2121, theiridium.com; $25 cover, with a $15 minimum. (Chinen)

The Brownie Roach Project: A Tribute to Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Friday and Saturday) This salute to one of the greatest bands of the hard-bop era is spearheaded by the drummer Louis Hayes, who also traveled in those circles. Filling the Clifford Brown memorial hot seat is Jeremy Pelt, a worthy heir; on tenor saxophone is Wayne Escoffery; and on piano is Sharp Radway. The bassist is Ray Drummond, who worked with Max Roach. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street, 212-582-2121, theiridium.com; $25 to $35 cover, with a $15 minimum. (Chinen)

★ Dave Brubeck Festival (Monday through April 13) Jazz at Lincoln Center, which has always known its way around a commemoration, presents a weeklong tribute to the pianist Dave Brubeck, who died in 2012. Its centerpiece event, in the Rose Theater from Thursday through April 12 at 8 p.m., is a repertory concert featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But the other offerings are just as worthy, among them a rare performance of “The Real Ambassadors,” Brubeck’s jazz opera, at the Appel Room next Friday and April 12 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.; and an engagement, on Monday and Tuesday at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, featuring Brubeck’s sons Chris (a bassist, bass trombonist and pianist) and Dan (a drummer). At various times, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, jalc.org; prices vary. (Chinen)

Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone (Tuesday through April 13) Mr. Burton, the esteemed vibraphonist, has recently been working with a knockabout band featuring guitar, bass and drums. He returns here to an older alliance with the brightly fastidious pianist Makoto Ozone, for a week’s worth of springlike duets. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village, 212-475-8592, bluenote.net; $35 cover at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen)

★ Cabaret Jazz (Thursday) For this installment of the Highlights in Jazz concert series, two soft-spoken titans of American songbook interpretation perform in cozy settings. Barbara Carroll, backing herself on piano, will be joined by a regular partner (and Highlights in Jazz MVP), the bassist and singer Jay Leonhart. As for Andy Bey, he’ll work alone, as on his sublime recent album, “The World According to Andy Bey.” At 8 p.m., TriBeCa Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, near Greenwich Street, 212-220-1460, tribecapac.org; $45; $40 for students. (Chinen)

★ Regina Carter Quartet (Friday and Saturday) On her spirited new album, “Southern Comfort,” Ms. Carter, the acclaimed jazz violinist, takes a close look at American roots music, with a clear emphasis on the African-American experience. She draws from the album in this engagement, featuring a spry backing band. At 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, 212-581-3080, birdlandjazz.com; $40 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival (through April 30) This homegrown festival, now in its 14th season, largely unfolds around the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. Among the highlights in the coming week are the Jeff King Septet on Friday at 8 p.m. Jazz966, 966 Fulton Street, at Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, and the percussionist Neil Clarke on Saturday at 9 and 10:30 p.m. at Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, at Jefferson Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant. More information is at cbjcjazz.org; $15 on Friday; Saturday’s show is $20 in advance, $25 at the door. (Chinen)

Claudia Quintet (Thursday) This precisely calibrated but willfully spontaneous chamber-jazz group led by John Hollenbeck, a drummer and composer, makes the layering of timbre a suspenseful event. The ensemble — with Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Matt Moran on vibraphone, Red Wierenga on accordion and Drew Gress on bass — will be playing music from a forthcoming album. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, 212-989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $8 includes one drink. (Chinen)

George Coleman Quartet (Friday and Saturday) The tenor saxophonist George Coleman and the pianist Harold Mabern, hard-bop veterans and two of the most accomplished jazz products of Memphis, form the central relationship in this quartet, whose booking this weekend is part of a 15th-anniversary celebration for Smoke. Their reliable rhythm-section engine consists of the bassist John Webber and the drummer Joe Farnsworth. At 7 and 9 p.m., Smoke, 2751 Broadway, at 106th Street, 212-864-6662, smokejazz.com; $40 cover. (Chinen)

★ Chick Corea (Thursday) He may have built his sterling reputation with a parade of dynamic ensembles — from Return to Forever, in the 1970s, to the Vigil, which toured extensively last year — but Mr. Corea also has a rich history with solo piano, the format in which his imagination roams most freely. He stops here as part of a worldwide solo concert tour, offering a preview of “Portraits,” an album due out this year. At 8 p.m., Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, 800-982-2787, the-townhall-nyc.org; $47 to $97. (Chinen)

Kris Davis Trio (Saturday) The pianist Kris Davis shares an aesthetic of unsettled calm and unhurried revelation with her partners in this trio, the tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and the guitarist Mary Halvorson. They have worked often in a slightly larger group led by Ms. Laubrock, but this will be their debut as a trio. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, 212-989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $10 cover, $10 minimum. (Chinen)

Jonathan Finlayson and Sicilian Defense (Friday) Jonathan Finlayson is an incisive and often surprising trumpeter, as he has demonstrated in groups led by the daring alto saxophonist Steve Coleman. The band he calls Sicilian Defense features the pianist David Virelles, the guitarist Miles Okazaki, the bassist Keith Witty and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey. At 9 and 11 p.m., the Jazz Gallery at Salt Space, 1160 Broadway, fifth floor, at West 27th Street, 646-494-3625, jazzgallery.org; $22, $10 for members. (Chinen)

Roy Hargrove (through Sunday) Hard bop has a prominent ambassador in Mr. Hargrove, a trumpeter who manages to inhabit the style without rigidity or stifling nostalgia. He’s also a shrewd bandleader who always works with an unfailingly disciplined crew. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village, 212-475-8592, bluenote.net; $35 cover at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen)

★ Tom Harrell’s Trip (through Sunday) Mr. Harrell, a trumpeter, favors a precise but shadowy sort of postbop, sonorous and warm and alert. He leads Tom Harrell’s Trip, a new venture with the saxophonist Mark Turner, the bassist Ugonna Okegwo and the drummer Adam Cruz. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, 212-255-4037, villagevanguard.com; $25 and $30 cover, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)

Jagged Spheres/Matt Mitchell Quartet (Friday) Jagged Spheres is an improvising chamber trio whose members — the flutist and saxophonist Anna Webber, the pianist Elias Stemeseder (or as circumstances may have it, Teddy Klausner) and the drummer Devin Gray — each do their part to fulfill the prickly fluency suggested by the group’s name. After its 8:15 p.m. performance, a separate set, at 9:30 p.m., will feature Matt Mitchell, a probing and highly proficient pianist, with a quartet featuring the tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Speed, the bassist Chris Tordini and the drummer Dan Weiss. At 8:15 and 9:30 p.m., ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, shapeshifterlab.com; $10. (Chinen)

★ Hugh Masekela: Celebrating 75 Years (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Masekela, the South African fluegelhorn player, is among the most statesman-like of jazz musicians, a melodist forever aware of his transaction with an audience. He presides over his own Jazz at Lincoln Center retrospective, drawing from the music of his homeland. For Friday’s concert only, he’ll also welcome a special guest by the name of Paul Simon. At 8 p.m., Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-721-6500, jalc.org; $50 to $125. (Chinen)

Jane Monheit with the MSM Big Band (Tuesday through April 12) Jane Monheit, pure of voice and firm of purpose, devoted her most recent album, “The Heart of the Matter,” to songs that ponder the subject of love. She’s likely to cover similar ground in this engagement, her first with a big band — let alone one stocked with students at the Manhattan School of Music, from which she graduated some 15 years ago. At 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, 212-581-3080, birdlandjazz.com; $40 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

★ Johnny O’Neal Trio (Sunday) Still something of a best-kept secret, Johnny O’Neal is a pianist in the Art-Tatum-and-Oscar-Peterson lineage, and a singer of gruff erudition. His standing engagement at Smalls, on Sunday nights, has become a prized institution; this week’s edition will double as an album-release celebration for “Live at Smalls,” a casually marvelous album recorded one night last summer, with Paul Sikivie on bass and Charles Goold on drums. From 10 to 11:30 p.m., Smalls Jazz Club, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, smallsjazzclub.com; $20 cover. (Chinen)

The Jeremy Pelt Show (Tuesday and Wednesday) Jeremy Pelt is a postbop trumpeter and bandleader of the highest order, as he proves again with “Face Forward, Jeremy,” his assertive new album. And as the title of this run suggests, he’s likely to apply an entertainer’s instincts to a band with Roxy Coss on tenor saxophone, David Bryant on Fender Rhodes piano, Chris Smith on bass and Dana Hawkins on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, 212-576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $20. (Chinen)

Alfredo Rodríguez (through Sunday) Mr. Rodríguez, a proficient young Cuban pianist, has won the support of friends in high places — like Quincy Jones, who helped produce his debut album and a new follow-up, “The Invasion Parade.” Celebrating the album’s release here, Mr. Rodríguez leads a quartet with Roman Filiu on alto and soprano saxophones, Peter Slavov on bass and Henry Cole on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set on Friday and Saturday, Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, 212-576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $25 and $30. (Chinen)

Tyshawn Sorey Trio (Saturday) Tyshawn Sorey can play the drums not only with gale-force physicality, but also a sense of scale and equipoise. He has lately been focused on composition, so it’s a rare treat to hear him in combo mode, digging in with colleagues like Cory Smythe, on piano, and Chris Tordini, on bass. At 9 and 11 p.m., Jazz Gallery at Salt Space, 1160 Broadway, fifth floor, at West 27th Street, 212-242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $22, $10 for members. (Chinen)

★ Tri-Centric Music Festival (Thursday through April 19) The Tri-Centric Foundation, organized around the music of the irrepressible avant-garde composer and multireedist Anthony Braxton, is about to unfurl its banner over two four-day stretches of premieres, beginning next Thursday. At the Eyebeam gallery in Chelsea, from Thursday through April 12 from noon to 6 p.m., the saxophonist André Vida will present “Moving Scores,” a three-day installation of animated scores interpreted by a small ensemble. The opening-night program, at 8 p.m. at Roulette in Brooklyn, will include “Hysteresis,” a piece by James Fei for reeds, trombones, bass and analog electronics, and Mr. Braxton’s “Composition No. 46,” in which he’ll preside over a 13-piece ensemble, the Trillium Chamber Players, stocked with perceptive improvisers like the flutist Nicole Mitchell and the saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock. A schedule is at tricentricfoundation.org. Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, near Third Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; Eyebeam, 540 West 21st Street, Chelsea. (Chinen)

Uhadi: All-Stars of Johannesburg Jazz (through Sunday) This group of jazz emissaries from South Africa — including the celebrated singer Sibongile Khumalo, the accomplished trumpeter Feya Faku and the saxophonist McCoy Mrubata, who’ll serve as musical director — comes to commemorate Nelson Mandela and 20 years of democracy in their homeland. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, jalc.org; $35 to $45 cover, with a $10 minimum; $25 for students. (Chinen)

★ Jeff Tain Watts Quartet (Wednesday) Jeff (Tain) Watts is an intelligent steamroller of a drummer, and over the last decade he has proved himself an astute bandleader and composer. Anchoring a band with Troy Roberts on saxophone, Manuel Valera on piano and Yunior Terry on bass, he helps break in the refurbished Minton’s Supper Club, which abides by a spruce formality that could set his wilder energies in relief. (Reservations are required for table seating, and for the male patrons, jackets are required.) At 7 and 9:30 p.m., Minton’s, 206 West 118th Street, Harlem, 212-243-2222, mintonsharlem.com; $35 cover, with a $30 minimum. (Chinen)